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COLUMNS
Field Notes • Dead Reckoning
Getting hard numbers on extinction rates in paradise
STUART L. PIMM
On Human Nature • Primate Peekaboo
Baboon doc sez: everyone likes to watch
ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY
ESSAYS & COMMENT
No Time for Heroes
Basic cancer research gets all the glory, but known preventive measures could save more lives
ROBERT N. PROCTOR
FEATURES
Riders on the Storm
Tornado chasers seek the birthplace of an elusive monster
HOWARD B. BLUESTEIN
The Zap Trap
Insecticides breed resistance. To win the war on bugs, people must learn when not to spray.
RICHARD H. FFRENCH-CONSTANT
The Earth Is Their Witness
Archaeology is shedding new light on the secret lives of American slaves
LARRY MCKEE
REVIEWS
Two Paths to the Bomb
The early development of nuclear weapons took similar turns in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. That history now suggests the difficulties any would-be bomb maker would face.
WILLIAM SWEET
Books in Brief • Life Is Tough
PLUS: Putting some snap into science and mathematics; ancient environmental degradation
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • Policy Pyrotechnics and Science
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Quanta
Crisis in cosmology; a strange yeast may help fight cancer
Strange Matter
Discoveries of the Future: The Pan-Universal Coffee Break
ROZ CHAST
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